169 pages 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references

I. Ministerial support in young America -- The Episcopalians -- The Congregationalists -- The Baptists -- The Presbyterians -- The Methodists -- II. The rise of modern missions -- Early beginnings -- The appeal of the Andover students -- The Baptists organize -- Other missionary developments -- III. Christians begin to think in terms of stewardship -- Missions create a need -- Sermons and writings on stewardship -- The spirit of sacrifice on the part of missionaries -- Laymen catch the spirit -- IV. The great stewardship awakening -- The prophets of the awakening -- Prize essays and other literature -- The gold rush -- The oldest stewardship statement -- The stewardship awakening and the revival of 1857-1858 -- V. Stewardship and the period of reconstruction -- The decline in stewardship emphasis -- The rise of the student volunteer movement -- Two significant stewardship writings of this period -- VI. The rediscovery of the tithe -- The work of Thomas Kane -- Tithing in St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church, Manayunk, Philadelphia -- Wesley Chapel inaugurates the storehouse tithing plan -- Other churches adopt the storehouse tithing plan -- Societies for tithers -- Dr. Henry Lansdell's research -- VII. The Laymen's Missionary Movement -- How the Laymen's Missionary Movement came into being -- The purposes and limitations of the Laymen's Missionary Movement -- The plan of operation of the Laymen's Movement -- The growth and contributions of the Laymen's Missionary Movement -- The Laymen's Missionary Movement appoints a stewardship commission -- The New York office disbands, but the Chicago office broadens the scope of its work

VIII. The Geneva Church and World War stewardship -- Introducing the pastor of the Methodist Church of Geneva, New York -- Cushman's experience in the Geneva Church -- Cushman becomes president of the newly founded United Stewardship Council -- Significant books on stewardship written during the World War -- IX. The era of great financial campaigns -- The Men and Millions Movement of the Disciples -- The New Ear Movement of the Presbyterians (North) -- The New World Movement of the Northern Baptists -- The 75 Million Campaign of the Southern Baptists -- The Centenary Celebration of the Methodists -- The New World Movement of the United Presbyterian Church -- X. The era of controversy -- The Interchurch World Movement -- The Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy -- The unified budgets and their effects -- XI. Depression developments -- The Lord's Acre Plan -- The Belmont Plan -- The Lord's Hour Plan -- XII. World War II and the intermediate post-war period -- The period of World War II -- The immediate post-war period -- XIII. Recent stewardship developments -- Stewardship agencies -- Stewardship plans

XIV. Stewardship in the larger denominations -- The American Baptist Convention -- The Southern Baptist Convention -- The Congregational and Christian churches -- Disciples of Christ -- The Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod -- The Methodist Church -- The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America -- Presbyterian Church in the United States -- Protestant Episcopal Church -- United Lutheran Church in America -- XV. Stewardship in the smaller denominations -- Assemblies of God -- Baptist General Conference of America -- Brethren -- Church of the Brethren -- Christian and Missionary Alliance -- Church of God -- Church of the Nazarene -- Evangelical Mission Covenant Church of America -- Evangelical and Reformed Church -- Evangelical and United Brethren Church -- American Lutheran Church -- Mennonite Church -- United Presbyterian Church -- XVI. The stewardship story summarized and concluded -- Summary -- Conclusions

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